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The Bed Wants to Become a Medical Device. Your Subscription Is the Bridge.
A $2,999 temperature-controlled bed is pursuing FDA clearance for sleep-apnea detection. The evidence, subscription economics and…
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The Smoke Is Outside. The Decision Is Happening on Your Kitchen Counter.
An indoor air monitor cannot clean wildfire smoke. It can tell you when to close the…
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Nine Devices, One Question: What Happens When the Wi-Fi Dies?
An offline-resilience audit you can run this weekend. Lock, camera, thermostat, TV, robot, sensors. Resilience is…
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Nobody Told You Smart Glasses Were an Optical Purchase
For anyone who needs a prescription, smart glasses are governed by vision benefits and an optometrist’s…
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The Repair Score Is Coming for the Smart Home
Repairability is becoming a purchase criterion. But a repair score measures whether you can replace a…
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The Thermostat Is Now a Power Plant, and You Are the Fuel
Demand response quietly turned your thermostat into a grid asset. That can be a good deal,…
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The Kindest Surveillance: Smart Homes and the People We Are Trying to Protect
Aging-in-place technology forces a trade no product page names: dignity against safety. A framework for anyone…
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Your Router Learned to See Through Walls. Nobody Asked You.
Wi-Fi sensing detects motion and presence using signals already in your home. No camera, no microphone,…
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Your Front Door Is About to Stop Caring Which Phone You Own
Aliro 1.0 unifies digital door keys across Apple, Google and Samsung wallets. What the standard actually…
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A $20,000 Housemate That Someone Else Might Be Driving
The home humanoid arrived with published pricing and a teleoperation footnote. The question is not whether…